I picked up the most simple cakes I could find at Publix and Costco and put them to the test. In the instance of Costco, I had only a couple of simple birthday style cakes to choose from ...

And Publix birthday cakes were a treat I’d keep coming back to. Publix cakes are mass-produced. They’re made off-premises in a bakery plant and shipped, frozen and naked, to individual stores ...